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SNOW WARNING FOR FRIDAY

A yellow warning for snow has been issued for Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray, with up to four centimetres expected to fall.

The snow will mainly affect high ground at first but will fall to lower levels on Friday night. One to four centimetres is likely at some lower levels but with five to 10 above 150m, with drifting in the strong to gale force north or northwesterly winds.

Education secretary Angela Constance has been attacked by a parents group for failing to provide answers on the Scottish Government’s ambitious childcare promises.

Jenny Gorevan, of Fair Funding For Our Kids (Glasgow), said: “The First Minister is right to put childcare at the heart of next year’s elections. But right now the Scottish Government says it guarantees 600 free hours childcare per year to every three and four-year old and we estimate as many as one in five kids are missing out. How will the First Minister deliver this new, bigger promise if she cannot even give children what they are entitled to now?”

COUNCILLORS in Edinburgh have agreed in principle to extending Edinburgh’s tram line to Leith at a cost of £162 million. Taking the trams down Leith Walk to Newhaven will be partly financed by £25 million dividend cash from publicly-owned Lothian Buses.

Council Leader, Councillor Andrew Burns, said: “I am pleased we have been able to find a way forward for the project, which would deliver a range of key benefits in terms of economic growth, greater accessibility and the environment for Leith and the city as a whole.”